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GET OUT AND DO THE THING.
... and here’s a little behind-the-scenes vid of my lil’ avatar:
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A post shared by Chris Battle (@chrisbattleart) on May 5, 2018 at 9:22am PDT
Another great graduation film has made its way to the interwebs: Less Than Human, a slice of life mockumentary about quarantined zombies ... Beautiful visuals, hilarious comedy, genuinely affecting characters! Directed by recent character animation graduate Steffen Bang Lindholm with a crack team of CAs and CGs: Ditte Marie Ludvigsen, Lasse Steinbeck, Anna Nissen, Morten Lassen, Matilde Søltoft, Julie Astrup, and Ida Marie Søndergaard. Go, watch, enjoy!
Hee Hee.... OUCH!
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Okay, just ONE last photo of this guy with his new shelf-mates, and then I'll get back to posting more TTG art. Promise ;)
Look who arrived all the way from Denmark! Love this sculpt by Morten Lassen :)
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Andrew Mockett’s new work is delivered to the gallery from the framer. It looks stunning.
Wednesday 15 October 2014
My Birthday! I float from one treat to another. Breakfast at Honey & Co with my friend Arje. Her son has drawn me a fantastic birthday card with a shark on it. (We have a shared fascination with/terror of them.) Matthew gives me a beautiful Lucite whale, made by the Brazilian artist and inventor Abraham Palatnik. A special lunch in the gallery – with different dishes made by all the girls. And then – as a special treat – for dinner, TWO gluten-free pizzas eaten in front of the Telly, while watching TWO back-to-back episodes of OITNB. Bliss.
Tuesday 14 October 2014
I’m back in Bishop’s Stortford – to give a lecture on Aboriginal Art to local NADFAS. It turns out to be a charming little town. Built at a ford on the River Stort, it has – since the Middle Ages - belonged to the Bishop of London. The lecture is a big success. They have already asked me back to give another talk – in 2016! Nobody loves planning ahead more than a NADFAS committee.
Monday 13 October 2014
Return to London and the rain. It is a rude shock after five days of blue skies, palm trees and eating dinner under a full moon in the Piazza. Coming back into town on the Stansted Express we pass through Bishop’s Stortford. It looks damp and depressing.
Wednesday 8 October- Monday 13 2014
PALERMO
After a 6 am visit to the gym, I boarded the Stansted Express, to catch the midday Ryan Air flight to Palermo – for a few days with holiday with Matthew and his parents. YIPEE!
I love Byzantine Mosaics – and was thrilled to see my namesake, Rebecca, tending to the camels. I have always felt an affectionate affinity with camels when I have come across them in the Australian outback.
Why can’t Camden have marble paving-stones. They are lovely to walk on, beautiful, and much harder-wearing than concrete.
Walking through the vegetable market, I couldn’t help but be reminded of our artist Rob Tucker.
Can you see me in my Dolce and Gabana camouflage?
On Friday night, the Italian football team were in town, and I had my photo taken with Andrea Pirlo, the bearded midfield maestro (England’s nemesis).
Tuesday, 7 October 2014
LAPADA, of which I am a director, was having its quarterly Board Meeting at 10.30 am. I was determined to be early, but people kept arriving at the gallery from the moment we opened the door at 9.30, that is was impossible to get away. I missed the debriefing about the fair, although I gathered that everyone was really happy with the event, and proud at how well it had gone.
I raced back to the gallery in time to oversee the departure of the Miami shipment. And when I next looked at my watch it was 6.30 and I was already late for my Philosophy Course.
The classes are held at the Rudolph Steiner Centre in Regent’s Park Road. The centre was built according to Steiner’s principles – with curved walls and an absence of straight lines. It was very nice to be in a building that follows the shapes of nature – trying to follow the cosmology of Plato.
The tutor was slightly balding and slightly diffident – and we edged ourselves cautiously into a discussion about the concept of harmony and the meaning of beauty.
As we did so I couldn’t help noticing how the beautiful Steiner-esque trapezoid windows had been blighted by the introduction of crude straight double-glazing bars.
It is a constant battle to maintain either Harmony or Beauty – against the onslaughts of Double Glazing and other practicalities.
Monday, 6 October 2014
Back to rain, and back to work. It will be a busy week with two major shows opening on Thursday at Conway Street: the Danish abstract-painter Moten Lassen, and the Canadian figurative painter, Andy Dixon. Then on Friday, the Korean artist Song Nyeo Lyoo has her show opening in the Charlotte Street gallery. And there is also a large shipment to prepare for the art-fair in Miami.
We sat around drinking green tea discussing all the things that needed to be done – and suddenly it was 12.30 and we hadn’t actually done anything!
Saturday 4- Sunday 5 October 2014
A second consecutive day in the gallery: this is great. It rained all day Saturday, and Charlotte Street was pretty much deserted. But to have peace and quiet, and a chance to sit in the gallery and look at the pictures – or carved owls – is a real treat.
Kirk Truman from the Fitzrovia Journal (one of my favourite periodicals) called in to see me with a film-crew. They are making a video about Fitzrovia and he wants some footage of me. The ever-expanding world of video is an exciting one. They introduce me to ‘Selby’ – a website with videos of people doing (more or less) interesting and curious things. We spend some of the afternoon watching a woman gathering seaweed to turn into natural dyes.
Sunday was gorgeous and autumnal – and I spent my day riding round London on my bicycle looking at things. At the Decorative Arts Fair in Battersea I studied how to make a floor for an art-fair stand out of builder’s scaffolding-planks. What a great idea…. I also bought a Wedgewood glass Scotty dog.
Friday 3 October 2014
For the first time in months I had a full day in the gallery. Georgia, Isy and I descended into the basement at Charlotte Street – which we use for on-site storage - to organize the stock for the next flurry of upcoming art-fairs.
The basement of the gallery has a powerful aura. During the 1960s it was used by a print-making cooperative. Bridget Riley, David Hockney, Terry Frost and other luminaries of the 60s’ art-scene used to come and fraternize and make their prints here.
It is hard work moving pictures around, and attempting ‘to make chaos cosmic’. I am always amazed though by how much I love tidying. It is hugely satisfying. We were all proud at the end of the day.
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